Independent Federation of Flight Attendants v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
819 F.2d 839 · 1987
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2005
11 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 152 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 156 (Railway Labor Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 181 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Erie Resistor Corp. · CPC International Inc. v. Dimmitt Agri Industries, Inc. · Mullins Coal Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Ellis v. Brotherhood of Railway, Airline & Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employes
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o amass a trainee pool capable of replacing the entire striking workforce at some future date after the strike has ended ... is inconsistent with the RLA’s grant of protections to those persons who actually perform services for the employer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“every air pilot or other person who performs any work as an employee or subordinate official of [a] carrier or carriers, subject to its or their continuing authority to supervise and direct the manner of rendition of his service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless a person has performed services for the employer under that employer's supervision he is not an employee for purposes of the RLA.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.